Kimball Brothers Building

A single story brick building stands next to a brick street in this 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph. The building has large windows with half circle windows above them. A sidewalk runs in front of the building, and there is a grassy area between the sidewalk and the street. Grass and sidewalk can be seen across the street as well. "Kimball Monuments" is written on the photograph.

Kimball Brothers relocated their monument business from Albia, Iowa to Lincoln in 1887, and produced many of the most impressive monuments at Lincoln's Wyuka Cemetery and other regional graveyards. Davis and Wilson designed the Kimball Brothers Building at the southeast corner of 17th and P Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1928. A large window set into the slate roof on the P Street side brought north light into the studio used by Fred Kimball, who was described as "a designer with a national reputation" in the company's advertisements for their "enduring granite memorials created with artistic values." The building still (2012) stands, occupied by the League of Human Dignity.